XmisshorsestyleX
Well-Known Member
Hello all,
Im looking for some help on how to handle my yearling colt in the right manner. Yesterday I got him in from the field (24hr turnout in a group with two older mares) for a groom etc, I went to pick his hooves out and I started on the near fore, he kept cow kicking towards my head whenever I asked him to pick it up. So I went and put my riding helmet on and went back to the same leg. The kicking seemed to get worse the more I asked him, and when I finally managed to pick it up he kept rearing up getting more and more wound up about the situation.
Im not normally the handler of him but have experience with young horses. I spoke to his usual handler about it who is an older male and obviously much stronger than me being a 18yr old female, who said that he never has any problems with him... But I suspect this is because he feeds him at the same time as picking his hooves out.
I need advise to handle the situation correctly as I am now going to be handling him from day to day and I need this problem sorted before he gets bigger and the hormones start to kick in!
Thanks in advance! xx
Im looking for some help on how to handle my yearling colt in the right manner. Yesterday I got him in from the field (24hr turnout in a group with two older mares) for a groom etc, I went to pick his hooves out and I started on the near fore, he kept cow kicking towards my head whenever I asked him to pick it up. So I went and put my riding helmet on and went back to the same leg. The kicking seemed to get worse the more I asked him, and when I finally managed to pick it up he kept rearing up getting more and more wound up about the situation.
Im not normally the handler of him but have experience with young horses. I spoke to his usual handler about it who is an older male and obviously much stronger than me being a 18yr old female, who said that he never has any problems with him... But I suspect this is because he feeds him at the same time as picking his hooves out.
I need advise to handle the situation correctly as I am now going to be handling him from day to day and I need this problem sorted before he gets bigger and the hormones start to kick in!
Thanks in advance! xx